Lisa Selvidge

Writer & Tutor of Creative Writing

Fiction writer and creative writing tutor offers feedback/critiques on prose fiction, scriptwriting and memoir (either by email or in situ), writing holidays for small groups in the Algarve, Portugal, one-day or half-day workshops, and five-week (2 hours per week) creative writing courses on writing fiction. Accommodation in the Monchique mountains is also available, providing a perfect retreat not only for writers but also for walkers, birdwatchers and anyone else who enjoys the mountains.

'To write a novel you must sit down and stay sitting. Unless you are a Hemingway and you stay standing. Or a Proust and you stay in bed.' Beryl Bainbridge (‘Waiting to Grow Up’, Review Saturday Guardian, 15.10.05)

'It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Sol Stein, Stein on Writing, St Martin's Press, 1995

'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.' Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, A Room of One's Own (1929)

 

Summer Times in the Algarve, a collection of writings by 17 writers with connections to the Algarve, is about to published by Montanha Books. 'Like the joy of discovering lost snapshots this collection gives treasured glimpses into both the richness and simplicity of Algarve life past and present.' Virginia Boston

If you would rather be by the coast, accommodation is also available in other parts of the Algarve

Beatifully renovated house in Figueira

1 Bed apartment in Salema with fantastic view

 

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